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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1901
Page
4
The notice outlines rising rates for advertisements and funeral notices with specifics on submission by Wednesday noon. It states that notices, resolutions, and entertainments with admission fees incur charges of 3 cents in advance and must be filed in the office.
A local notice from Bresy and Hanson for the Recop, marking thirteen years, requesting subscriptions and payments, noting office moves to ground floor, and expressing hopes for prosperity. Mentions strengthening operations with new tools and continued local advertising support.
A fragmentary note describes an annual auction of baseball players, comparing high bids to a clever colored coachman’s earnings in the South before the war. The text is garbled but signals a lively market for players.
A Fairview resident identified as M. P. Sholty attended the trial at Warsaw on Monday, with details of proceedings not provided in the readable text.
Ed Hohman bought a new buggy and Elmer Homan has boiled for a week. Sam Hohman and John Warren visited Warsaw Tuesday. Ed Hohman and Stephen Hill traveled to Mentone Saturday on business. Numerous neighbors attended church and a funeral in Palestine. Families visited, jobs and chores noted, and the community crowd gathered for services and a quarterly Beav er Dam meeting.
A black entrepreneur's North Carolina bank collapses, described as swiftly crushed like a bank run by white financiers, highlighting racial elements in the failure.
The note lists Paulina Urynowicz and Wlady slaw as sample North Judson residents. The remark implies residents’ names cause confusion and misdirection in the town.
An exchange presents a lyrical scene of a boy with a shining pail moving through a vale toward a brindle tailed cow on alfalfa. A bumble bee glides above as the boy milks the cow, then the bee lands and the boy soars toward eternity.
A Kansas farmer near Ottawa named his infant Leon Czolgosz, a foreigner, prompting neighbors to drive him from the area. He had a priest christen the boy but was rebuked by the priest. Afterward locals gave the family hours to leave and they disappeared.
Reports from Indianians say President Roosevelt will place the rural mail delivery under civil service rules early next year. Some welcome the move as advancing reform while others fear spoilsman influence. Indiana, birthplace of rural delivery, is poised for further expansion as service extends to more areas.
Abram Hare of Belleville Ohio declares Electric Bitters the best selling bitters he has handled in 20 years. He attributes the claim to their health benefits, noting many diseases start from disorders of stomach liver kidney bowels blood and nerves.
From Coopersville Michigan comes word of a liquid remedy said to ease coughing and ensure a good night’s rest before bed. The ad claims three generations use Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption and other lung diseases with bottles 50 cents to a dollar and free trial bottles at Chae Rager’s.
M F Emerson 18 is on duty again. Miss Lucy Heckman was at home over Sunday. Clarence Baumgardner was in town Wednesday. Ira Keplinger bought the Ketchum property. Revival meetings continue at the M E church drawing growing interest. J W Shoemaker returned from Wisconsin Friday. The Ideal Entertainers performed at LOTM hall last Thursday and received high praise. Local farmers urged to enforce hunter restrictions as residents do.
Mr Gray of Am enia Duchess county New York endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as the best medicine for children with croup. He says it prevents attacks if given early and cures when hoarseness or croupy cough appears. For sale by Chas. Rager.
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